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There are many proprietary password managers on the market for those who want an out-of-the box solution, and then there are open source password managers for those wanting a more customizable option. Other providers of open source password solutions are a hybrid between open source and proprietary - their code is based on an open source distribution but has modifications or is packaged in a particular way to make it easier to deploy.
The operator of the world's longest-running Bitcoin money laundering service faces a 50-year prison sentence after being found guilty in a US court. According to the Department of Justice, law enforcement previously seized 1,354 Bitcoin that was held in a Bitcoin Fog wallet along with $349,625 in other tokens from the Kraken crypto exchange.
Microsoft Security Copilot, also referred to as Copilot for Security, will be in general availability starting April 1, the company announced today.At a press briefing on March 7 at the Microsoft Experience Center in New York, we saw how Microsoft positions Security Copilot as a way for security personnel to get real-time assistance with their work and pull data from across Microsoft's suite of security services.
Microsoft Copilot for Security, a subscription AI security service, will be generally available on April 1, 2024, the company announced on Wednesday. Based on GPT-4 and a Microsoft security-specific model, Copilot for Security takes input from people or scripts, passes the text through an orchestrator layer, a context layer, and possibly application plugins, then returns a response from the underlying AI model.
One of the most common misconceptions in file upload cybersecurity is that certain tools are “enough” on their own—this is simply not the case. In our latest whitepaper OPSWAT CEO and Founder,...
While the results of law enforcement action against ransomware-as-a-service operators Alphv/BlackCat and LockBit are yet to be fully realized, the August 2023 disruption of the Qakbot botnet has had one notable effect: ransomware affiliates have switched to vulnerability exploitation as the primary method of delivering the malware. The researchers pointed out other current trends related to ransomware attacks: the attackers' use of vulnerable drivers, legitimate remote desktop tools, custom data exfiltration tools, and abuse of built-in Windows utilities to steal credentials.
You might have heard about the practice of pen test vendor rotation, or even tried it yourself. This is where organizations change their pen test providers annually to avoid complacency and maintain an objective perspective on their security posture.
The threat actors behind the PixPirate Android banking trojan are leveraging a new trick to evade detection on compromised devices and harvest sensitive information from users in Brazil. The...
Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was convicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., for operating Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and 2021. Bitcoin Fog was one of the longest-running cryptocurrency "Tumblers" on the dark web, which cybercriminals from multiple darknet marketplaces used to launder their criminal proceeds.
Stanford University says the cybersecurity incident it dealt with last year was indeed ransomware, which it failed to spot for more than four months. Keen readers of El Reg may remember the story breaking toward the end of October 2023 after Akira posted Stanford to its shame site, with the university subsequently issuing a statement simply explaining that it was investigating an incident, avoiding the dreaded R word.